Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 61

Here it was that Sir Bugge, after the architect had left him, said to one of his men, "Go after him and say, 'Master, the tower shakes.'

Who acts: Bugge, it, tower · What happens: leave, be, go, say, shake · To what, where: architect, one, Master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bugge, it, tower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bugge	nmod:desc
6	Bugge	Bugge	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 architect	det
10	architect	architect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Bugge	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Bugge	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 said	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 men	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 men	nmod:poss
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Go	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Go	punct
23	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Go	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 say	cc
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 Go	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Master	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 Master	punct
30	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 say	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shakes	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tower	det
33	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shakes	nsubj
34	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Master	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive	Bugge Sir not said here	the architect				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
2	be speech: assert	past	it		one of architect's men		say property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive				after architect		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		Master				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic
5	shake in a quote	present	the tower	Master not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent master=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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